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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Edward Albee

The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

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